Sentence examples for almost anticipated from inspiring English sources

I almost anticipated the pigeons in the airshaft startling.

In a strange way, Stewart said, she had almost anticipated her current crisis, if not its precise form.

"Then she would update them… She almost anticipated the celebrity memoir to not get the whole story out, but to tell it in many volumes".

When I was at school it was an almost anticipated expectation that I'd either be a lawyer or a journalist by the age of 25.

The score to "Richard" abounds with hints of Gothic music as well as rustic dances and a theme associated with Richard that reappears throughout, almost anticipating Wagnerian leitmotifs.

"It doesn't quite become a chess game but you definitely get to know each other a lot more and you are almost anticipating certain things.

There's not the visual grandeur of the big bands, the sharp clothes, for Mr. Burns to play with; the verbal cliches march onward; someone who has read the basic jazz histories can almost anticipate what the script will say about Parker, Miles Davis, Paul Desmond and Thelonious Monk.

The crowd will turn up hoping, almost anticipating, an upset.

"This gives the audience a much richer experience, as suddenly you can see not only where the guy clicks but also see what he is interested in, and almost anticipate his next move," explains Oscar Werner, Tobii's president.

I am often asked, "Is this, like, um, your real job?" I can almost anticipate the question before it's even asked just by hearing the discomfort in someone's voice and noticing the lack of eye contact.

She jumps on the moment, almost anticipating the audiences breaking into a chuckle after a languorous sequence of near silence.